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> To go back to the cow analogy, rather than adding 24 rooms (more threads) you give each surgeon a powersaw and they work twice as fast. I was thinking that m
by krisoft 2y ago
> To go back to the cow analogy, rather than adding 24 rooms (more threads) you give each surgeon a powersaw and they work twice as fast.
I was thinking that maybe that is what we are talking about. But convinced myself otherwise. Surely we don't need that much math to show if we cut the processing time in half the processing time will be cut in half. But if that is all we are saying I guess I can accept that as quite trivial.
- kqr 2y agoCut the processing time in half while doubling the load! The average cow, pre-jamboree, spends one hour in the hospital, including time waiting for a slot in the OR. Then you give the surgeon a power saw that allows him to complete the job in half the time, but he also gets twice as many cows to work on. Most people's intuition would tell them the cows would still spend an hour in the hospital (the doubling in work rate canceled by the doubling in work amount), but actually now it takes half an hour -- regardless of how swamped the surgeon was initially.